If Hitler replaced Christ, and if the Third Reich replaced the kingdom of God, then it followed that Germanic blood and not Christ’s blood was salvific. As Alfred Rosenberg noted, writing in the foundational text of National Socialism, The Myth of the Twentieth Century, the new Germanic faith in Aryan blood had replaced and surpassed the old sacraments.21 Thus the new faith had all the required elements of a religion: a gospel, a leader, and an eternal nature.
